Young Clagett (now member of Congress from Montana) unharnessed and fed and watered the horses; Oliphant and I cut sagebrush, built the fire and brought water to cook with; and old Mr. Ballou the blacksmith did the cooking.

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A striking illustration in point occurred recently in a cafe in Montana.

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The experience of a Montana railroad executive gives force to this thought.

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It was for two reasons that Montana Kid discarded his "chaps" and Mexican spurs, and shook the dust of the Idaho ranges from his feet.

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Montana Kid was such a one.

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These pilgrims Montana Kid proceeded to farm.

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II Dawson, always eager for news, beheld Montana Kid's sled heading down the Yukon, and went out on the ice to meet him.

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By the time Montana Kid gained the bank he was surrounded by several hundred fur-clad miners.

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Why Montana Kid did this thing no man may know.

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The community subtly signified its desire that Montana Kid obliterate himself from the landscape.

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And Montana Kid obliterated; as usual, at the tail-end of some one else's dog team.

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With Circle City in prospect and the last ice crumbling under his runners, Montana Kid took advantage of the lengthening days and travelled his dogs late and early.

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Montana Kid, though possessing little knowledge of the break-up of a great river, looked about him dubiously, and cast yearning glances at the distant bank where the towering bluffs promised immunity from all the ice of the Northland.

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At first sight of this, Montana Kid was tempted to take his dogs and escape to the mainland, but on closer inspection he discovered a rapid current flooding on top.

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Montana Kid, however, was fresh from Salt Water, and they annexed him while they pitched camp, swamping him with questions concerning the outside, from which they had been cut off for a twelvemonth. A shrieking split, suddenly lifting itself above the general uproar on the river, drew everybody to the bank.

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Then they fought their way to the bank through swirling water and grinding ice, where, foremost in leaping to the rescue among the jarring fragments, was the Kid. "Why, blime me, if it ain't Montana Kid!" exclaimed one of the men whom the Kid was just placing upon his feet at the top of the bank.